Australian broadcaster SBS, France Télévisions and CBC Gem, the streaming service of CBC in Canada, have acquired Ukrainian drama anthology series Those Who Stayed. Launched at MIPCOM last month, the 6 x 30-minute series is inspired by events that took place in Kyiv in the first few weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in […]
Nordic trio DR, SVT and NRK have struck deals for a new documentary from Lawrence Elman and Nick Fraser of Docsville Studios that explores the bombing of the iconic ship Rainbow Warrior. The Greenpeace ship was sunk in July 1985, with investigators initially suspecting terrorists but quickly uncovering a trail of clues that led directly […]
Eight public broadcasters across Europe including Germany’s ZDF and the Nordic five have joined forces to create a new co-commissioning club that aims to coproduce eight scripted projects each year. New8 is seeking projects across genres and will pool the resources from ZDF (Germany), NPO (The Netherlands), VRT (Belgium), SVT (Sweden), DR (Denmark), YLE (Finland), […]
NBCUniversal’s Peacock in the US, Bell Media and TVA in Canada and Arte in France and Germany are among a slew of broadcasters and platforms to pre-buy the second season of BBC thriller Vigil. DR in Denmark, NRK in Norway, YLE in Finland and SVT in Sweden have also picked up the series, alongside BBC […]
Swedish pubcaster SVT has reshuffled its senior content team with Eva Beckman named programme director, replacing Jan Helin who is joining Nordic media giant Bonnier Group. Beckman was most recently programme director with a focus on drama, film, entertainment, lifestyle, culture, factual and children’s, but she will now oversee all content including documentaries and minority. […]
South Korea’s KBS faces an “existential crisis” if proposals to change its funding mechanism move ahead, according to some of the world’s biggest public broadcasters including the UK’s BBC, CBC in Canada, ZDF in Germany and France Télévisions. Around half of KBS’s revenue comes from the licence fee, which is funded via a levy on […]
Five Nordic public broadcasters, including SVT in Sweden, NRK in Norway, YLE in Finland, DR in Denmark and RUV in Iceland, have combined their spending power to pick up a package of UK scripted series following a deal with distributor ITV Studios. The agreement was struck at ITV Studio’s Drama Festival at London TV Screenings […]
Sky & SVT buy docs from Espresso SVT in Sweden and Sky Arts Channel in New Zealand have picked up documentaries from UK-based distributor Espresso International. Sky Arts NZ has taken recent release My View: Clem Burke (1 x 48 minutes), which profiles the Blondie drummer, and The V&A Presents Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser (1 […]
Broadcasters SVT in Sweden, NRK in Norway and YLE in Finland have co-commissioned Those Who Stayed, an anthology dramedy series about life during wartime in Kiev from Ukrainian studio Film.UA. The 6 x 40-minute series has been co-developed by Film.UA and Red Arrow Studios International, which will distribute, and is inspired by the true stories […]
Swedish pubcaster has boarded a Cold War dramedy from Stockholm-based Skyverse Nordic, which is being directed by Midnight Sun‘s Björn Stein. Whiskey On The Rocks (6 x 30 minutes) has been written by author Jonas Jonasson, who previously worked with Patrick Nebout and Skyverse Nordic’s creative producer Henrik Jansson-Schweizer on Oscar-nominated The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed […]
